Lead/Senior Scala Developer St Albans

Skills

• agile
• Akka
• AssertJ
• AWS
• Azure
• CI/CD
• CQRS
• DDD
• Docker
• Event Sourcing
• Functional Programming
• GCP
• Git
• Grafana
• gRPC
• HDFS
• Hive
• Java
• javascript
• Jenkins
• JUnit 5
• Kafka
• Kanban
• Kibana
• kotlin
• Kubernetes
• Maven
• Mentorship
• Microservices
• Mockito
• MongoDB
• Pair Programming
• Perl
• Play
• Python
• SBT
• Scala
• ScalaTest
• scrum
• Senior Technical Leadership
• Spark
• Spring Boot
• SQL
• TDD
• Vert.x
• WebFlux
• WebLogic
• XP

Experience

Aug 2025 - Present

Software Architect Specialist at Government Project

– BPSS and SC cleared
– Led integrations workstream delivery team of 10 members
– Managed and mentored team to maintain focus on delivery
– Collaborated with managers and colleagues across project levels
– Conducted client-facing meetings and planning activities
– Built technical teams by hiring developers, cloud engineers, and architects
– Established technical delivery processes for teams to follow
– Provided senior leadership and facilitated concept transfer through visual methods
– Developed Java applications
– Worked with AWS Cloud Services: VPC, Lambda (StepFunctions), S3, IAM, EventBridge, and more

Apr 2024 - Aug 2025

Senior/Lead Scala & Java Developer at HMRC

– Channel Routing and Integration Service – ChRIS, a high-volume microservices system using asynchronous JMS messaging
– Developed secure Java EE components on WebLogic for PAYE, VAT, and SA systems
– Created Keystores and Truststores with Keytool and OpenSSL for encryption
– Configured WebLogic server for secure communication using TLS 1.2
– Implemented Jetty server service to support testing and increase testability
– Automated SSL-related tasks using Perl and Python scripts
– Stamp Taxes on Shares Service – STOS
– Led technical direction for the Stamp Taxes on Shares domain
– Led service prototyping using Scala and Play
– Led service development of STOS using Scala/Play on MDTP platform
– Implemented frontend components using custom UI framework
– Set up GitHub CI/CD pipeline and refined Agile practices
– Income Tax View & Change Service
– Built income tax logic using Scala, Cats, and microservices
– Implemented standard frontend framework following agreed UI design
– Used TDD with ScalaTest, ScalaMock, and Mockito to drive service logic
– Developed code interacting with MongoDB for queries and data storage
– Used Kibana and Grafana for monitoring; GitHub CI/CD for builds and deployments

Mar 2023 - Oct 2023

Scala Developer / Lead Engineer at Lloyds Banking Group

– Worked on a compliance project to report daily exposure to front desk traders
– Used Scala with Spark to process and save data to HDFS (HQL, Hive) in Parquet format
– Implemented Akka/Scala framework Actors to organize system execution and behavior
– Developed and maintained Kafka and Spark streaming logic interacting with the data lake
– Set up and configured gRPC for component-to-component binary communication

Education

2005

MSc Computer Systems & Networks at London South Bank University

1999

BSc Computing for Business at University of Northumbria